Vocabulary Words - Third Grade - O:

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• oar
  (n.) A pole used to help row a boat.
  
  
• oat
  (n.) A grain that you grow for its seeds, which people and animals use for food.
  
  
• object
  (n.) Something that you can see or feel.
  (v.) To disagree with or oppose something.
  
  
• octave
  (n.) A set of eight musical notes.
  
  
• oil
  (n.) A smooth thick liquid you use to make machines run easily.
  (n.) A smooth thick liquid made from plants or animals that you use in cooking or to make a machine run better.
  (v.) To put oil on something.
  
  
• oink
  (n.) The noise a pig makes.
  
  
• olive
  (n.) A bitter-tasting black or green fruit used for food or oil.
  
  
• one-and-a-half
  (adj.) One plus half of another.
  
  
• one-half
  (n.) 50 percent.
  
  
• onion
  (n.) A round vegetable with a sharp taste and smell that you use in cooking.
  
  
• open
  (v.) To make something open.
  (adj.) Not closed or covered.
  (v.) To make something available to use or visit.
  (adj.) Available to use or visit.
  (n.) A type of tournament.
  
  
• orange
  (adj.) A color that is a mixture of red and yellow.
  (n.) A citrus fruit.
  
  
• otter
  (n.) A mammal that swims and eats fish.
  
  
• ouch
  (conjunction) What you say to show you feel sudden pain.
  
  
• ounce
  (n.) A unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound.
  
  
• outline
  (n.) Main facts or summary about something.
  
  
• output
  (n.) The amount of items produced by someone or something.
  
  
• outside
  (adj.) Not inside a building.
  (n.) The outer part or surface of something.
  
  
• oval
  (n.) Shaped like an egg.
  
  

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